BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — Vermont could lose its long-term radiological monitoring by next year because of lack of funding by Entergy Nuclear, the radiological health chief for the state said last week. William Irwin told the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel that the Department of Health had started radiological testing even before Vermont Yankee started generating power. But he said the environmental surveillance could end in April 2016, unless there …
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GREENFIELD — The Citizens Advisory Panel on the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Decommissioning has held five meetings since last October and two sessions since the Vernon, Vt., reactor ceased operations at the end of December. Now, its only Massachusetts representative, Rep. Paul Mark, D-Peru, has scheduled an April 14 “informational forum” in Greenfield to …
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BRATTLEBORO — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has put Entergy Nuclear on notice that it doesn’t like corporate plans to use the Vermont Yankee decommissioning trust fund for several big­-ticket expenses. The two sides held a telephone meeting Monday to discuss Entergy’s post-shutdown decommissioning activities report, which includes the stated intention of using the $660 million fund for Yankee’s property taxes, Entergy Nuclear’s membership …
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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — The energy company that owns the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant has asked for permission to build a second concrete pad on which to store spent-fuel casks after the plant closes at the end of the year. New Orleans-based Entergy announced in August it would shutter …
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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — A decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week not to endorse the transfer of spent nuclear fuel from pools to dry cask storage won’t have an effect on the anticipated transfer of the highly radioactive fuel at Vermont Yankee. Christopher Recchia, commissioner of the …
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BRATTLEBORO — Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials ran into open skepticism and hostility from local residents Wednesday night, as they were peppered with questions about persistent operating problems at Vermont Yankee nuclear plant as well as future decommissioning issues. Activists brought “laugh track” buttons that they used whenever there …
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MONTPELIER, Vt. — The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is giving the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant positive reviews for its performance last year. Bill Dean, the agency’s Northeast regional administrator, is in Brattleboro for meetings Tuesday and today and tells The Associated Press that while there were some issues …
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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a meeting Wednesday to discuss its annual review of safety performance at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. The 6:30 p.m. meeting in Brattleboro Union High School Auditorium, will include a brief presentation on the decommissioning process followed by a …
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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — Entergy has announced it is taking the first steps toward moving its spent fuel to dry-cask storage at the Vermont Yankee site by 2021, with plans to file with the state to build a second concrete pad. The announcement of the filing by June 30 …
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Entergy Nuclear has again filed suit against the federal Department of Energy, seeking $88 million it has already spent on handling and storing its high-level radioactive waste at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. The lawsuit, filed last week in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, …
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VERNON, Vt. — The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant had a small leak of radioactive steam last week but it was contained and the public was not in danger, a plant spokesman said. The leak was discovered by a worker doing maintenance on a pipe, Vermont Yankee spokesman …
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VERNON, Vt. — Owners of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant want to do away with the 10-mile emergency planning zone surrounding its reactor after it ceases operation at the end of this year. The zone, which includes portions …
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MONTPELIER — The honeymoon between Entergy Nuclear and the Shumlin administration appears to be over. Disagreements between Entergy Nuclear and the Agency of Natural Resources surfaced last week in an exchange of letters over the proposed draft permit …
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PUTNEY, Vt. — The owners of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant should have put money into a separate economic development decommissioning fund, as well as its $622 million plant deconstruction fund. That was a suggestion made Wednesday …
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MONTPELIER, Vt. — Sternly scolding Entergy Corp. for “bad conduct” during its 12 years of owning the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, Vermont regulators on Friday approved the plant’s operation through the end of 2014, when it is closing for economic reasons. The Public Service Board made clear in …
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